You are given a sentence in English. Your job is to translate the English sentence into Japanese.

The sea levels were dropping. And Africa was turning to desert.
海面は下がりアフリカは砂漠になった

Telegraph? No.
電報でもありません

Please pardon me, as a black man, for celebrating that the election of Obama was an unusual sign of the fact that it is a year of favor.

黒人としてオバマ大統領の選出をこれまでと違うことがおこる兆候として黒人として祝福することをお許しください

